I think that was the title, it was on last night...

Looked ok, showed lots of foods, gave hints and ideas for recipes, showed a little bit of making and such but... Didn't really seem to show you start to finish how to make something.. I think its really aimed at getting those of the 'vindaloo and tandoori chicken on the way home from the pub brigade' interested in some of the real Indian foods (which isn't a bad thing)...

anyone else see it ?

Steve

Hi! Can you tell us which programme that was please? We might not know what to look out for otherwise.

Cheers

Khich

Was it called "Indain cookery made easy"?? LOL Which chanel was it shown on??

I think it was Indian Food Made Easy, Monday nights on BBC2 :)

thanks Ganders!

Anjum Anand is on Nikki Bedi's programme on Asina Network at the moment...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork/nikki_bedi/

See here for further opinions:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbfood/F2670470

ah well done a blantent plug.... LOL

Seems most people where thinking along the same lines of it not really showing how to and more on trying to make it look glitzy...

Steve

Yeah our site is really well known on the BBC Food Boards as mum posts there herself plus a LOT of regulars recommend it - it's not that often I need to bother as someone's usually beat me to it. :D

I did wonder why a lot from the BBC boards suddenly appeared on here a while back. :-)

Ooops! sowee if I shouldn't have posted that link....

I did come across Mamata-ji on the BBC boards too, then came over here to find out more instead. It's really helpful!

I will get round to posting more recipe suggestions and pictures myself when I get round to actually owning a decent enough digital camera and updating software on my PC at home ( which I need help with!)

I missed it, but it sounds like it's for beginners, which is fine, but Madhur Jaffrey did all this in the early 80's. And actually showed how it was done.

It'd be good to get Mamta on the telly!

Phil

I think mum would be a fab teacher but these days TV presenters have to be slick, gorgeous and absolutely at ease infront of a camera - whereas mum would be a real person with nerves and hesitation and real life speech patterns rather than TV speak. They'd can her even though we'd love her!

Khichri I wasn't refering to your link I was talking about Kaveys plug for this board on the bbc one... lol

What are you struggling with on the computer?.. ask and someone might know.

Steve

"Plug" is so sordid!

I actually didn't post it to try and drum up visitors - we're not commercial remember so it's not like we charge per visit!

But when I joined the board I noticed how often OTHER posters would give our or website URL in response to requests for Indian cooking help or recipes so now I do the same!

No need to worry I was only joking... lol

the more the merrier.. :-)

They no doubt post the link for a good reason !

Steve

Dear all

I have now seen this tv programe.

It's utter rubbish.

Phil

We have been spoiled with great recipes, information and help on here I think :-)

Steve

Thank you, I think ;-)!

Dear Mamta: your site is great, and that intro to Indian cooking is superfical nonsense. The presenter seems to think she's a kind of Indian Nigella Lawson, but Nigella knows how to cook, unlike the presenter of this tv show.

It is often said that Elisabeth David transformed British cooking in the 50's by introducing the then deprived, ration-stricken, British middle classes to Mediterranean food.

What also needs to be said is that, in the 80's, Madhur Jaffrey converted many British people to the joys of Indian cookery, which we had hitherto believed to be a mystery.

My two herioines of Indian cookery are Madhur Jaffrey and Mamta Gupta.

This tv programme fails where Madhur Jaffrey succeeded. It's just cooking as light entertainment, except that it's not even entertaining!

Phil

Thank you so much for your kind comments Phil :-)! I feel honoured when people say things like that. LOL!

I watched part of the last episode. Food wasn't bad but she seemed a bit flippant, if that is the right word. Perhaps she was nervous? I am sure she will get better with time, she is very young at present ;-)! I have to say that she appeared VERY confidant to me, for such a young person. Good luck to her. The chicken tandoori and paneer she made was not bad, almost same as one of mine, but she had added crumbs to chicken, a good idea. I think (not sure, I might have missed something) that at one point she added some oil on top of a cooked snack, was it bhajias? I did not follow the logic of that in this day and age when everyone is trying to cut out fat :-).

Madhur Jaffrey is not only a good cook, she is also glamorous. That always helps, look at Nigella Lawson :-)! Madhur made her name first as a superb film actress and was already famous before she went into cooking. I first saw her in Ivory Merchant's 'Chess Player'. I think she comes from a family of good food eaters, where 'Khansamas' (cooks) made most of the food, with probably under her mum's guidance. She got into cooking later in life. Incidentally, her name 'Madhur' means 'Sweet' or 'melodious'.

Mamta

I have recently read Madhur Jaffreys Autobiography - Climbing the Mango Trees. A wonderful insight into her growing up in Delhi with her very extended family - descriptions of the food so graphic I could almost taste them!!!

Lots of nice recipes in it as well as her life story. Recommended read.

She was on UKFOOD (I think) this morning on a re-run of one of her series... Well worth watching if you can get it..

Steve

Many thanks for the tip re that book: I hadn't known it existed. I'll make sure to get it. I recall the original Madhur Jaffrey tv series, and would love to be able to record it, if I could see a re-run. For many of us, she was the first person who convinced us that we really could cook Indian food, which had seemed a mystery to us.

And now we have Mamta's site, which I keep recommending to friends. It's a really valuable resource. Times have never been better for people interested in Indian cookery! But I don't like that new tv programme. I find it rather superficial.

Phil

You can see some of her recipes being cooked by her on http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/get_cooking/main/index.shtml?section=3, however I think you have to be in the UK.

What a good link, several of her recipes on there !

thanks

Steve

maybe we need some Mamtas Kitchen videos doing?...

(again can I have Van Diesel as my stand in?)

Steve